Paul, speaking Monday on NBC’s “Today Show,” said “undeclared unwinnable wars” and a financial crisis created by U.S. foreign policy are two reasons why his message is attractive.
“We’re dumping that debt on the young people,” he said. “The next generation they’re with me. They’re getting dumped on. If people want to live in the past and think we can perpetuate this welfare state and continue with this foreign policy, it’s just going to doom us.”
His platform is “very American” and “produces prosperity and peace” by questioning the U.S. role as the world’s policeman and the policy decisions that come from that perspective, Paul said.
Paul, who advocates legalizing drugs and prostitution and eliminating a host of Cabinet positions, including the Department of Homeland Security, says he’s not a fringe candidate as he may be portrayed by the media.
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New Orleans Strip Clubs: Offensive Obama Impersonator Isn’t Face GOP Should Put Forward
June 20, 2011
Obama-impersonator Reggie Brown launched into a series of racially-tinged “jokes” about the president’s racial background, the president’s parents (for example: “My mother loved a black man and, no, she was not a Kardashian,”), and perhaps most regrettable of all, a photo comparison of the president and first lady to Fred G. Sanford and Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son. [Check out political cartoons about the 2012 GOP field.]
Simultaneous to the audience reacting with nervous laughter, the press seized on the remarks, followed immediately by the Twittersphere of the Left. Reaction, as you can imagine, was not positive.
It should be easy to dismiss the event as a bad decision and total aberration. However, in this age of viral YouTube videos, tweets, Facebook comments, and instant news, this happens all too frequently.
Earlier this month, a YouTube video criticizing Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn used such gratuitous and racially stereotypical hip-hop imagery (think guns and strippers and language not suitable for the airwaves or this blog), that it has inflamed minorities in California and caused a backlash threatening to obscure legitimate questions about Hahn, potentially helping her candidacy. [Read Milligan: Sexist, Racist Ad Targets Democrat Janice Hahn.]
… He enjoyed life more than anyone I know,” said Julia Woodward Burka, a longtime friend. “What interested him was having a good life.”
And wherever he went, everyone seemed to know him, Burka said.
Mr. Schmidt was a native New Orleanian who seldom ventured far from the Crescent City, even when he was drafted in World War II. After his family saw him off on the troop train, not knowing where he was going, Mr. Schmidt wound up being deployed to Biloxi, Miss., only 90 miles away, his son George said.
Mr. Schmidt grew up in a musical family. His mother sang in the chorus at the French Opera House, where he played backstage as a youngster; his sister was a vocalist with several bands; and an uncle played piano in a Storyville brothel and, later, accompanied silent movies on the organ in local theaters.
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Gingrich called the ABC report “so inaccurate” and a “hit piece.” He said NBC owes Callista an apology.
“After all my years of public life, I don’t mind people attacking me; I’m a big guy I can take it,” he said. “But to go after anyone’s wife, I think is pretty despicable.”
Hahn filing complaint against Huey: California House candidate Janice Hahn (D) is not letting up on an offensive web ad run against her by a conservative third party group in an upcoming special election.
The video features Hahn’s face edited onto the body of a pole-dancing stripper, surrounded by “hardcore gang members.” While Republican candidate Craig Huey has denounced it as “blatantly racist and sexist,” Hahn is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging coordination between Huey’s campaign and Turn Right USA PAC, the group behind the ad.
New Orleans: ”America’s dirtiest city?” Jun 13 2011 11:57PM Posted 23 hrs 27 mins ago A survey of readers by Travel and Leisure Magazine ranked the city of New Orleans as “dirtiest” in the publication’s annual America’s Favorite Cities survey. Read more…
Jindal vetoes cig tax renewal Jun 13 2011 10:12PM Posted 1 day 1 hr 12 mins ago Gov. Bobby Jindal rejected a 4-cent cigarette tax renewal Monday night, setting up a showdown with lawmakers over whether they will override a gubernatorial veto for the first time in 18 years. Read more…
St. Pierre can go free… for now
Posted 1 day 11 hrs 22 mins ago
Should a man who bribed New Orleans City Hall officials with cash, vacations and strippers performing sex acts on a yacht stay behind bars pending his sentencing? A federal judge today ruled that Mark St. Pierre could get out of prison until his sentencing… Read more
New Orleans Strip Clubs: Jindal vetoes cig tax renewal
June 14, 2011
Saints weathering lockout storm better than others Jun 14 2011 7:01AM Posted 2 hrs 36 mins ago The Saints have avoided any cuts or furloughs as a result of the lockout in part because their revenue stream from ticket sales never has been better. They recently billed season ticket holders for the second half of their amount due, perhaps to maintain enough cash flow to delay resorting to salary reductions… Read more
Analysis: Mitt Romney leaves GOP debate unscathed Jun 14 2011 6:55AM Posted 2 hrs 42 mins ago If Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and other Republican presidential hopefuls feel they need to close the gap on front-runner Mitt Romney, they didn’t show it at the New Hampshire debate. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who leads in the early polls and fundraising efforts… Read more
St. Pierre can go free… for now
Posted 21 hrs 35 mins ago
Should a man who bribed New Orleans City Hall officials with cash, vacations and strippers performing sex acts on a yacht stay behind bars pending his sentencing? A federal judge today ruled that Mark St. Pierre could get out of prison until his sentencing… Read more
St. Pierre can go free… for now
Posted 9 hrs 46 mins ago
Should a man who bribed New Orleans City Hall officials with cash, vacations and strippers performing sex acts on a yacht stay behind bars pending his sentencing? A federal judge today ruled that Mark St. Pierre could get out of prison until his sentencing… Read more
Income tax repeal revived, sent to full House Jun 13 2011 11:23AM Posted 10 hrs 25 mins ago A proposal to repeal Louisiana’s personal income tax has been revived by a House committee. The Senate had changed the bill by Sen. Rob Marionneaux to make it a study, instead of an outright tax repeal, over concerns the loss of billions of dollars could devastate state services without a comprehensive plan… Read more
SERPAS: As of today [June 6] there’s 90 murders this year compared to 90 murders last year. It’s a crime that continues to require a tremendous amount of attention. But I think my analogy best explains it. We have to be very good at what we’re doing. But the big playmakers are the other parts of the system.
G: There’s a real fear that crime is spiking Uptown — armed robberies, burglaries, sexual assaults. What’s being done about that?
SERPAS: I hope we can give context — to every robbery victim, it’s 100 percent up for them. And we understand that. But January, February, March and April, there were tremendous reductions in robberies in the 2nd District and throughout the city. In May we had a spike in these robberies. Commander [Darryl] Albert and his team did a tremendous job responding to it, put a lot of extra boots on the ground. And then from May 23 until today there have been two robberies. One involved a prostitution date, and then the one we had Sunday (June 5) on Marengo Street, which is clearly a ’stranger’ robbery.
New Orleans Strip Clubs: In cigarette tax fight, Jindal’s ideology trumps good sense: James Gill
June 12, 2011
In cigarette tax fight, Jindal’s ideology trumps good sense: James Gill
Published: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 6:50 AM
Not since Earl Long commenced cavorting with a stripper has a Louisiana governor acted this strangely.
DAVID GRUNFELD / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse in Covington announcing that bath salts are now illegal in Louisiana, Thursday January 6, 2011.
Bobby Jindal appears to be putting principle over political expediency, and you couldn’t get much more out of character than that.
But the principle on which he has elected to stand is a highly perverse one, and his main concern remains himself. So perhaps there is no need to send for the men in white coats after all.
Jindal, in his quest to lower the price of cigarettes in Louisiana, is not only bucking public opinion but setting himself up to be the first governor in decades to suffer the indignity of a legislative override. He is evidently willing to pay the price of maintaining an anti-tax stance even when it defies all reason. Say tax, and Jindal will jump up and shake his head. Pavlov would approve.
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New Orleans Strip Clubs: Plaquemines Parish Sheriff Jiff Hingle received meals, trips and entertainment …
June 12, 2011
She said she spent a wild evening with Bennett and Hingle in June, one that took them from a lavish dinner at Bayona in the French Quarter to drunken shots at the Old Absinthe House.
“I remember that day exactly because Aaron drank absinthe at the Absinthe House, and at one point he bought one for himself and one for the sheriff — and he just lost his mind,” the ex-girlfriend said. “He acted like an idiot, and I remember he said to me, ‘Do you think I need to apologize to the sheriff?’ ”
Benetech’s credit card bills show that on June 6, 2008, he charged $694 meal at Bayona, $100 at the Old Absinthe House the same night and $401 at Rick’s Cabaret, a French Quarter strip club. The ex-girlfriend said she didn’t go to the strip club that night.
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